Guild Wars 2

As others already said, unless the LFG post specifies that “newbies” are welcome or that cutscenes will be watched, it’s generally best to assume that the party expects that cutscenes will be skipped to save time (since story paths are generally longer than exp paths). Thus, it’s always a good idea to make your intentions known before the path starts; that way they can go ahead and say if they’re OK with it or not (and that way you don’t waste your own time with a group that’s not on the same page as you).

Pressing Tab never targets friendly/allied NPCs for me. And it rarely opts to target a yellow mob unless there are simply no other hostile mobs around me.

Jerus.4350:

Be interesting if they could actually pull it off. I think one of the big things about bagpipes though is the constant tone that’s played, not sure how well they could do that.

Yeah, the drone might be hard to do with how instruments have been so far. Plus, the drone might make other players want to kill you if it sounds bad.

I have the feeling a GW2 bagpipe would be as annoying as the GW2 trumpet. So shrill. So loud. So obnoxious.

If they somehow made it so it WASN’T shrill, loud, and obnoxious, I’d be all for it.

Roda.7468:

But but but, you can preview them here http://imgur.com/sfL2zF7 ‘3’

Except you can’t preview the new ones, as OP already said . . .

Yeah, as Sorin said it’s basically a website-based inspect. I would personally rather not have this for GW2.

Then I don’t really know what could have happened, unless you didn’t kill the vet fast enough or something. :\ Maybe try again. If it still doesn’t register, then submit a ticket to support.

Michael.9403:

Actually, it was a drop from the Maw, and I replaced it with a similar drop several days later, after I’d leveled 5 levels.

Maw doesn’t drop anything that’s “account/soulbound on acquire”, which is what that ring you’re talking about would have been if you can’t sell or salvage it. You probably did get it either as a leveling reward (most likely), PS reward (also likely), or bought from a karma vendor (not quite as likely as you’d probably remember if you bought it).

Oreithyia.3064:

I don’t have nearly as much, but when I’ve hoarded enough I’m buying Goedulf.

My first laurel purchase was Chauncey. Then I got the wolf puppy. And then I got the cat tonic. I’m very satisfied with my laurel purchases. <3

I saw one person in LA map chat say this. This person was a bit of an idiot, though.

I’m in a “bleh” state because there’s not really anything for me to do right now. I don’t really have any long term goals set right now because I want to save up gold for things in the expansion, and there’s not really going to be anything new in-game until the expansion. So, I’m just kind of “bleh”.

This week on GW2 Hoarders . . .

1. For “Leave No Survivors”, are you sure that you did the group of inquest that spawn behind the door when the veteran inquest is triggered?

2. Did you do this on a character that has already played through the full chapter to unlock the achievements?

Put it up on the TP. Forget about it. The end.

Shouldn’t there be some sort of.. 6-month or 1 year transfer token distribution in favour of returning players?

In a word: No. I mean, I do understand your predicament, but returning players shouldn’t be given a free transfer just for returning.

You’re not on the spot. See the little Down Arrow on the green star? Go to the waypoint you already have unlocked there (Hidden Depths Waypoint), and then go down until you see the star.

Sarie.1630:

Stand down, crisis averted.

So it’s either a REALLY long respawn time, or some guy has been entering without the key somehow. Someone in map chat was claiming it was possible just now.

Bit annoying I’ve been sat here with the key for 2 hours and some other player has just been entering without one and re-starting it’s respawn timer.

If you can actually SEE the player doing it, report him.

Yup, exotic is definitely good enough for pve content (except for high level fractals).

The helm looks like the Cabalist helm. The rest, however, just looks like generic norn NPC clothing (which isn’t available for player characters).

Yeah, I agree with Gobble. The post made it sound like the bonus rewards will be given for doing events and other such things and not necessarily for map completion.

Ascended gear requires pretty much no RNG. All you need is level 500 crafting in the discipline(s) for the gear you want and time to farm out all the mats you’d need (loooooooooots of cloth, metals, and leather for the armors and lots of wood and metal for the weapons and lots of the bloodstone dust, emp fragments, and dragonite). I think making ascended weapons and maybe armor (if you want to go that far with it) would be a good goal for you. So, look at the character(s) you play the most, and see what weapons they use. For example: a warrior uses many weapons that a Weaponsmith makes (greatsword, sword, mace, axe, spear). So, if you main a warrior, it might be a good idea to go for level 500 Weaponsmithing to make some Ascended weapons for that character. Plus, if you have any other character that can also use the Ascended weapons you make, you can simply put them in your bank for your other characters to use when you play them.

Edit: There is a slight RNG side to this in that you need Dark Matter to craft ascended items, and that drops from salvaging exotic items. It’s not a definite chance to drop, so yeah, some RNG.

Also, stats do matter in wvw.

tigirius.9014:

Sounds like a repeated symptom of DR again. This has happened several times before you see only after the implementation of DR.

How in the world would Diminished Returns be the case here? The OP thought the reward for completing all the Tequatl achievements was an item or items. The reward is actually a title and achievement points. No case of DR.

I don’t know, then. I’ve never had a case where he simply stood there and refused to move. He’ll usually at least walk across the lava field for me.

I was also very happy to see more detail about it. I’m excited for it all.

Did anyone interact with the oracyte node before porting back to the entrance? If no one interacts with it, Magg won’t proceed to his next step (going to/across the magma field).

Necro.

Vinsanity.5963:

RoseofGilead.8907:

Vinsanity.5963:

RoseofGilead.8907:

Vinsanity.5963:

RoseofGilead.8907:

Vinsanity.5963:

Dude i was using “the kittenn skin” you know. I already sold the armors like you did but i was using skin.

You do know you can use the skin without using the armor item itself, right? There’s a wardrobe. Once you unlock a skin, it’s there to be used (by using transmutation charges) for any character that is eligible to use it.

Dont you think i did that ? dude i did what you exactly said. I used transmutation charges. But i cant salvage them right now

Then that’s because you put the skin on either a karma or wvw armor piece. That’s not because of its cultural status.

ohhh this is it . so it is because of my armor’s taken from wvw vendor ? ohh holy hamburgers

Yeah. Both karma items and wvw items cannot be salvaged.

Dude i bought new runes and i have ascended armor full set , i transmuted cultural armor skin onto ascended armor. problem still existing. When i click black lion salvage kit it looks like unsalvageable. is it bugged or something ?

You can’t salvage ascended armor, dude.

As someone else pointed out above, there are two arrow carts there that you’re meant to use, while letting the NPCs be meat shields for you. If you get overwhelmed, run back and wait until you’e healed, and then go back in for the fight. No “exploit hunting” needed.

Every PS instance, save the final one that is a 5-man dungeon, is soloable. I’ve done them all solo on every class type, and I’m not even that great of a player. You can do it, too.

Learn to play. As a guardian you have access to stabilities to keep from getting knocked down. You have Aegis, both from your Virtue and Retreat (if you choose to use it) to protect you. You have condi cleanses. You have an elite that lets you go invulnerable. You also have the ability to dodge. You also have a brain to work out when you need to disengage, where you need to stand to avoid over-agroing other mobs around you, and when to use your dodges/invuls/everything else.

Seriously. Take some time, change your skills, make sure you have gear within 10 levels of your character’s level, and keep trying until you find something to do that works.

Vinsanity.5963:

RoseofGilead.8907:

Vinsanity.5963:

RoseofGilead.8907:

Vinsanity.5963:

Dude i was using “the kittenn skin” you know. I already sold the armors like you did but i was using skin.

You do know you can use the skin without using the armor item itself, right? There’s a wardrobe. Once you unlock a skin, it’s there to be used (by using transmutation charges) for any character that is eligible to use it.

Dont you think i did that ? dude i did what you exactly said. I used transmutation charges. But i cant salvage them right now

Then that’s because you put the skin on either a karma or wvw armor piece. That’s not because of its cultural status.

ohhh this is it . so it is because of my armor’s taken from wvw vendor ? ohh holy hamburgers

Yeah. Both karma items and wvw items cannot be salvaged.

Vinsanity.5963:

RoseofGilead.8907:

Vinsanity.5963:

Dude i was using “the kittenn skin” you know. I already sold the armors like you did but i was using skin.

You do know you can use the skin without using the armor item itself, right? There’s a wardrobe. Once you unlock a skin, it’s there to be used (by using transmutation charges) for any character that is eligible to use it.

Dont you think i did that ? dude i did what you exactly said. I used transmutation charges. But i cant salvage them right now

Then that’s because you put the skin on either a karma or wvw armor piece. That’s not because of its cultural status.

Vinsanity.5963:

Dude i was using “the kittenn skin” you know. I already sold the armors like you did but i was using skin.

You do know you can use the skin without using the armor item itself, right? There’s a wardrobe. Once you unlock a skin, it’s there to be used (by using transmutation charges) for any character that is eligible to use it.

No, you cannot play it anymore. It was set up very differently from Season 2, and thus Season 1 is unrepeatable.

Why would you put good runes inside the cultural armor (which is of rare quality)? Plus, since you can sell back cultural armor for a good chunk of money, you’d usually end up just losing money if you could salvage it.

Bag slots are per character.

The unlimited harvest tools are account bound, but you’ll have to move them from character to character.

Home instance items are available to all of your characters, and they can be harvested once per day per account.

I feel the copper-fed salvage item is definitely worth it in the end. The silver-fed one, not so much. And the home portal stone is worthless, to me, as I can already get to a home instance for free.

No, no. The trumpet is the worst. Ever. But I agree that it sounds more like an out of tune piano than an actual bass.

This is, like, the third cape topic in the past 36 hours. Ugh.

Nothing is off the table, but I don’t think they’ll be in the game anytime soon. At all.

And making the same post once a month won’t make the devs pay attention or want to respond.

Have you spoken to the Seraph north of Shaemoor Garrison? You have to talk to him so that he can “tell” you where to go. Once you talk to him, a green star will appear on your mini map, so you’ll know where to go.

I’m not sure what you’re describing here.

Back before the wardrobe, there was the PvP locker, which contained your PvP skins. Every time you got an Achievement Point chest, you’d get a chest inside of it containing several PvP skins; you got these even if you never set foot in PvP. And once you “consumed” them, they’d be put in your PvP locker. That is likely why you have it unlocked.

Vukorep.3081:

yes, you can buy uni dyes with laurels and sell them… but honestly is it worth buying a 2nd account for that? i dont think so…

Don’t waste laurels on uni dyes. If you’re wanting gold, it’s better to get t6 bags (1 laurel gets you a bag of 3 mats, as opposed to 5 laurels getting you 1 dye).

Many items that are useful for an account are account bound items. Thus, you wouldn’t be able to share a lot of things between your two accounts. You CAN share gold and non-bound items, though.

I have two accounts, but just because I like making alts.

Aenesthesia.1697:

Spirited Was Eceni.3869:

Not sure if this has already been mentioned or not but it always feels wrong for me when holding weapons as they’re in the wrong hands. One handed weapons are the worst for me and especially sword or axe, if I look at my chars too much then it makes my hands feel weak and my skin itch. Strange I know but I can’t help it.

I don’t imagine I’m alone in this (though my physical reaction might be) so my question is, if we raised enough support do you think Anet would introduce left handed character options? I have no idea how easy or hard it would be to implement but I do know I’d throw chunks of cash at my monitor if the upgrade went on sale in the TP.

Weird. Do you also get this physical reaction when watching a movie with a right handed character on it?

I am left handed and never felt anything similar. Though now that you mention it, it would feel really weird to hold a sword with the right hand. But the only time i ever got a physical reaction like this was upon seeing jimmy hendrix play his guitar (he played a right handed strat like he was left handed, meaning the guitar was upside down….you would think he could afford a leftie strat….)

I remember reading before that Jimi’s father held the (sadly common until the past 30 years) belief that left handedness was a sign of evil. So, Jimi learned to play right-handed and used a right-handed guitar for when his father would be around to see him play. He’d simply re-string it to play it lefty. I have no idea how true it is, though.

Yeah, they’re in the gem store right now.

Press H. Click on Achievements. Then click on General. Scroll down, and click on Fashion.

I’m also a lefty, and sometimes the weapon thing would bug me. But I’ve gotten used to it, luckily.

Astralporing.1957:

You don’t need 15 people for Rushes – it needs to be run 15 times, but it doesn’t require those runs to be performed by different players.

Unless it’s changed since the last time my guild tried to have people run it more than once, I believe you’re wrong. Each person who completes the rush gets counted once. Repeat completions don’t count towards the 15. So, you do have to 15 different players participating to not fail the Rush, BUT you can get random players to help and have their completion count.

From the wiki:

“Multiple successful runs do count towards the 15, it does not have to be 15 unique guild members.”

To answer your questions:

Dungeons are still a very good way to get gold. Every explorable path gives you at least 1g upon completion (once per day), but some give more. AC paths give you 1.5g per path. The Aetherpath of TA gives you 2g. Paths 1, 2, and 4 of Arah give you 3g. So, really, you could do any dungeons you want. The fastest ones tend to be AC 1 and 3, CM 3, SE 1 and 3, and COF 1. However, you could add some of the “longer” easy ones (they’re not really much longer) such as CM 1, all paths of COE (these paths give you chances at charged cores/lodestones, too), COF 2, the two Nightmare Court paths of TA, and HOTW 1. It’s just really what you feel like doing.

Yes, dungeon exotics can be forged to make precursors. I’ve gotten one from dungeon exotics before. But I believe that forging rare greatswords tends to be the most cost efficient way of getting a precursor. So, it’s up to you whether you’d want to forge rares or exotics.

Both dungeons and Silverwastes are great money, and you get champ bags from both. So, it’s just up to which one you want to farm.

As Seera said, precursors will be given for completing certain collections in the upcoming expansion. So, if you plan to get the expansion, it might be a good idea to wait until it comes out to worry about a precursor.

Caledon Forest had a heart added to it back in September (I think it was then). So, if you had already gotten 100% on that map before that heart was put in, you wouldn’t get the reward a second time for doing that heart.

Some POIs and hearts were also added to other maps, as well.

What Haishao said. Melee, and you will take next to no damage (unless you don’t dodge out of his PBAOE).